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posted on 2013-08-01 07:08 EDTFormer Toei producer Tohru Hirayama passed away on Wednesday due to heart failure. He was 84 years old.

A private funeral service for close relatives will be held in the next few days. The chief mourner will be Mitsuru, his eldest son.

Hirayama entered Toei in 1954. in 1971, he took the seat of producer on the popular live-action hero program Kamen Rider, and was also the original creator for the television show Kamen Rider Stronger. He produced many of the Kamen Rider TV shows and films during the '70s and '80s.

The 33rd Annual Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) announced on Thursday the first ten films that will screen at the event, among which is the live-action film adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin. The festival will be held on October 10-13. The event's organizers have not yet announced the screening times for the films.

Several pictures of what appears to be a full-size prop of a Patlabor robotic mecha are circulating online on Saturday. According to two of the posters, the replica was in the Nanbu-Shijō area of Yokohama City, just south of Tokyo.

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol:

More of the same as an Ultraman show. This time... it involves the toys.

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol:

This year's 17th issue of Kodansha's Be Love magazine announced on Monday that Aki Morino's Shikatsushi - Joō no Hōigaku josei manga will be adapted into a one-episode live-action drama special. The special will air on Friday, September 29 from 9:00 to 10:52 p.m. JST on the Fuji TV channel.

The original manga revolves around forensic doctor Yuki Kiriyama, a smart but strange teacher at a medical university who wears no makeup and has frizzy hair. Hajime Inugai, a fourth-year at the medical university, comes to work under her. However, he finds that he can hear the voices of the corpses that he is investigating, and learns the truth about each of their deaths.

The full version of a new visual for the live-action Patlabor film project was revealed at the Taiwan International Comic Exposition on Thursday. The movie's official website also updated its cover page:

It's that time of the year again as we have our first set of RUMORS for the next Super Sentai series. Again, take these rumors with a grain of salt since they are still rumors.

The next Super Sentai series will feature "animal faced" vehicles similar to the ones from Jetman, Go-Onger and recently, Go-Busters. The biggest surprise in this rumor is that the line will not include a lion mecha, a staple in most general animal themed shows.